"It's just that because of that mark, things like this haven't happened to you in the past few years. But now, Yamata no Orochi has erased the mark, and you have to suppress it on your own."

Since the mark disappeared, the hunger pain every night makes me unbearable. The pain, as if my whole body is being cut, urges me to long for flesh and blood. Obviously when the next day comes, I will try my best to let myself go.

Even though I vomited it out, it didn't help. This situation lasted for many days, and then I slowly reduced my eating.

The arrival of the false god has made the entire Kyoto and surrounding forces nervous. I can't help here at all. Aye doesn't dare to let me go out, and I don't dare to go out either.

I hate myself like this and have thought about how to die more than once. I have thought about asking Aye or Minamoto no Raimitsu to kill me, but this is too much for them. I stay in the barrier every day, and there will be resentful spirits during the day because of me

The demon power around me flew towards the barrier where Genji and I were like moths to a flame.

Seimei and Kagura also took a quick look at me. Although they said they would save me, I knew that the false gods were what they had to deal with now.

...By the way, if I want to die and find the false god, it will definitely do it.

So, I made a plan. A plan to escape from the barrier and go to death.

Dusk was approaching, but Aye came back at this time.

I stood there, watching quietly as he threw the blood-stained clothes aside, and then lay down on the ground tiredly. I moved my steps and slowly walked to the wall. The chains on my feet and hands followed.

As I moved, it made a "squeaking" sound.

Aye will come back as early as possible, but there are times when he doesn't come back all night. At this time, the iron chain comes into play. The onmyoji above can more or less bind me to Genji, so that I won't go out to cause trouble.

I slowly sat down against the wall and turned my head to look outside the sliding door. The rare colors of the sunset shone in. The smell of early summer was already very obvious, and the smell of vegetation seemed lighter than usual, but I

Still smell it.

Everything is quiet, which is in sharp contrast to the false gods that need to be fought.

"It's so beautiful..." I looked at the sunset and said, "If by that time, we had already left Kyoto by boat..."

"No ifs." Aye responded to me.

I turned around, and Aye opened her eyes tiredly, but her expression was very soft.

"Hey, Aye..." I lowered my head, "The false gods are over, what will you do? Are you still staying in Genji?"

"No way... I have to take you out of here." Aye slowly sat up, and then sat next to me against the wall like me. "The situation of the false god has been relatively stable recently. Because the false god will

Many monsters have been restrained, and the Onmyoji cannot summon shikigami, so they cannot fight. Fortunately, Seimei and the others always move much faster, so that they will not be in a deadlock now."

"Speaking of which, will Aye die?" I closed my eyes and leaned my head against the wall.

"Don't be afraid, I will always be by your side." Aye said, "But Axi is really unreliable. He will stay as long as he wants."

I opened my eyes and looked at him: "Didn't you let him stay in the underworld?"

Aye smiled helplessly and rubbed my head with his hand: "You even know this, then you should also know that I can only predict the future, but I am not omniscient and omnipotent."

"...What if I die? Will Aye be afraid?" I showed a long-lost smile.

Aye withdrew her hand and looked down at me. The room was so quiet that it made people panic.

"I won't let this happen." Aye replied.

I turned my head and tears fell.

"Compared to this, I brought you a gift." Aye interrupted my moment of sadness, "Although it is not something expensive, it is not made well enough. As a gift for you to grow up, it is too simple...

...I learned a little bit from Hoshikuma Doji, and it’s pretty passable.”

I hurriedly wiped the corners of my eyes, then turned around and saw a small cluster of purple sunflowers, but obviously, it was not real. It was a wooden sculpture, thinly threaded with red string, like a god.

Just like the goldfish wood carving of Le.

"Are you going to send me away with this?"

Aye gently pulled my hand away, put the wooden sculpture in my hand, and smiled: "After it's over, I'll be with you whatever you want."

But the smile only lasts for a moment.

"Speaking of which, is there anything Azi wants to do?" Aye also tilted her head and asked, looking straight ahead.

"What Aye wants to do is what I want to do." I answered from the bottom of my heart, "I just want to be with my brother."

I don’t have anything in particular that I want to do. Being with Aye is my biggest wish. So, when Huang asked me at that time, after being a little confused, I once again thought that my brother’s wish was the most important. Even if I didn’t

Don't understand him...

"No, I'm asking Azi what you want to do." Aye rejected my answer, "Don't you have something you want to do? I'm not everything to you."

I don't know how to answer the question. I have always been doing it for my brother and for myself. Such words don't matter to me at all.

"...But, besides my brother, I don't know what else I have, so I'm very afraid of losing my brother." I put my chin on my knees, "I don't have anything I want to do. If there is anything, it's my brother."

wish..."

"...That's wrong, it's a false wish." Aye denied me softly, and then suddenly said loudly, "What, in the end you don't even know this."

I was a little unhappy, looking at him with his eyes closed and deliberately sad: "That's not the case. Can't the wish for my brother be considered a real wish?"

Aye opened her eyes: "Even if it's hypocrisy, do you still want to continue?"

"...Eh? What do you mean?"

Aye sighed: "Forget it... But I may not be able to come back in the next few days... You have to be alone..."

Aye's words undoubtedly made my throat choke, but I knew that I shouldn't stop him at this time.

So, I turned cold and displeased: "What...Aye, are you looking down on me? I've been working hard in the past few days..."

Aye suddenly reached out and hugged me tightly: "I'm sorry."

I froze on the spot and didn't say anything else. The light of the setting sun quickly fell, and hunger came as expected. Perhaps this was the last time Aye would accompany me in the near future. I tried my best to suppress the desire to bite my arm, and finally endured it.

By dawn.

After falling into a drowsy sleep, I woke up in the same evening as yesterday. Unreasonable panic surged in my heart and kept rolling. Every time the night got darker, the hunger in my belly became stronger and stronger.

I didn't take a bite of the rice balls prepared on the table. This is not what I want to eat...

Maybe it's because I endured it all night yesterday, and the hunger now is even more unbearable than yesterday.

The iron chain rattled under my struggle, which looked particularly strange in the quiet courtyard. The purple and yang flower and wood sculpture hanging on my chest radiated light under my struggle... Is that Yin Yang magic?

...This is natural, right? Aye would do such a thing. If Yamata-no-Orochi is the god least like a god, then Aye is the human being most like a god. He is tolerant of everything, and at the same time, he is tolerant of everything.

Sympathy and understanding for all disasters. This is what I don’t understand...

Obviously he is just a human being who was lucky enough to save his life, but he still has to do it for human beings and for the safety of Beijing...

Before my consciousness became blurry, I reached out and stuffed the chain that locked me into my mouth. Pain invaded my body, and I gradually remembered the past.

Before Aoiko died, she was alone, waiting for her father and brother to come back. She would also dream of eating empty chestnuts, and she wanted to cry but could only open her mouth to eat.

later……

Then I thought of Prajna... He reached out and wanted to be friends with me, but he still left. I heard him call me "Miss Azi"...

...My head hurts too, and I can't think of anything now. I fell to the ground, huddled together, and the enchantment on the chain in my mouth began to loosen...

The resentful voices of the undead witches began to be heard. I knew that this was the most vulnerable time for the barrier that Aye had arranged for me.

I stood up with support on the ground. I had bitten the chain. Now as long as I keep approaching the barrier, I can get out... Once I get out, I can end myself. Saying that I can endure it is just comfort.

Let me... In the end, I will become a monster like Konguri who has lost his sense of self. If that's the case, it's better to give up all the pain and die now than to live like this in the future.

I walked towards the courtyard step by step, and a heavy object suddenly stood in front of me. It was a tachi, somewhat like the one owned by Ache...

But it must not be Archie. Then it is only him...

But shouldn’t he be fighting against false gods? Even the Fujiwara family’s onmyojis have been mobilized. As the head of the Genji family——

Before I could think about it, something was stuffed into my mouth. The taste of rice balls filled my entire mouth, but what made me even more sensitive was the things in the rice balls... My mouth was blocked, and I was crawling on the ground.

I could only raise my head and saw his profile in the night.

"Eat it." Just the same command as before.

My tongue came into contact with that thing, which made me want to move. Minamoto Yorimitsu ignored me and turned around to repair the barrier.

"Your father and I have a pretty good relationship, but I never thought that he would fall in love with the snake demon Konguri. Although he approached Konguri to get rid of her, people with unstable hearts will eventually be swallowed by the monster."

My trembling hands have already started to push the rice ball into my mouth. But where did the stuff in the rice ball come from? I can't eat it. Once I touch it again, I may not be able to hold it back anymore.

"Korauri keeps eating people because she can't bear the power given by God, just like you now." Minamoto Yorimitsu continued, "However, whether it is a monster or a human, as long as it can be used by me, I will not abandon it.

.What's more, if you die, Aye will no longer be of use to me."

To be controlled…and then abandoned again…

It doesn't matter, even then, I have to live for my brother. But I can't go back to the way I was at the beginning... I spit out the rice ball bit by bit, and I also saw the rice ball wrapped in it.

A broken finger.

Minamoto no Yorimitsu looked at me condescendingly, as if he was examining whether I was qualified to talk to him again.

"Genjiya is the most talented side clan I have ever seen. His onmyoji is one of the best among the Genji, and it will be extremely beneficial for me to take the position of head of the family. So, I won over him and used my feelings as a bargaining chip.

I won his trust. The fox demon's fire burned through Kyoto and took away my brother's life." Minamoto no Yorimitsu stabbed the sword into the ground and looked down at me, "I understood then that only the strong can

To pacify Kyoto, only by destroying monsters and using monsters can the world be peaceful. But at that time, Minamotoshiya actually fell in love with the snake demon Konguri that we wanted to eliminate. In order to protect Konguri, Minamotoshiya chose
To be continued...